Alan Carr to go Head-to-Head With Jonathan Ross and Piers Morgan

Alan Carr is set to go head-to-head with Jonathan Ross and Piers Morgan in the TV schedules.

The wonky-toothed funnyman -- who latterly landed his own new World chat show with Channel 4 in a �3 million ($6m) deal -- testament be now competing with Ross on BBC1 and Morgan's new ITV chatfest.

Carr, 32 -- already co-host of the Sunday Night Project -- is expected to give his aged rivals a run for their money.

A Channel 4 insider tells Britain's News of The World newspaper, "Jonathan and Piers ar from a different generation -- Alan is the TV boldness of the future.

"He'll ask celebrities questions the other two will be afraid to. All the signs are he'll be brilliant."

His rivals are already at each other�s throats--with Ross, 47, blasting Morgan as "sculpted from lard" and Piers, 43, calling him "smarmy".

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Dangermouse Warns Of Diabetes Danger

�Diabetes UK has launched a personal identification number badge appeal in partnership with Halifax Bank of Scotland.




The badges, featuring cartoon superhero Dangermouse and his hamster assistant Penfold, will be on sale at Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches crosswise the UK with takings going to Diabetes UK.



Every syrian pound raised will be matched




Customers are existence encouraged to donate �1 for each badge and every pound raised will be matched by the HBOS Foundation.




The money volition be used to facilitate fund basketball team mobile educational vans to screen, inform and suggest 1.5million people about the dangers of diabetes over the next deuce years.



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Jillian Baillie, Deputy Head HBOS Foundation, aforementioned: "Pin badges are enormously popular with colleagues and customers alike. The return from this appeal will be a huge hike up in the fight to find undiagnosed diabetics before their term becomes life threatening."




Ros Luckman, Partnerships Manager, Diabetes UK said: "By purchasing a Dangermouse thole badge you will not only be helping us generate life-sustaining funds, simply you will also be helping us raise awareness of the dangers of diabetes."



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The educational vans will journey up and down the UK, targeting areas where the risk of diabetes is highest. Diabetes UK has been chosen as one of three charities to benefit from the HBOS charity of the year program - the Million � Challenge.




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CBC deftly handles Air India tragedy in new movie

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Air India 182, which aired last night on CBC, puts me in the rare position of not only recommending a CBC production that isn�t Dragon�s Den, but insisting that you make time to catch the film when it re-airs. CBC viewership figures, much as they might be spun to make it look like the national broadcaster is constantly on the verge of recovering its profile among viewers, suggest nonetheless that anything that airs on the network stands a worse chance of being seen by the average Canadian than a Simpsons re-run.

If a kind of Pavlovian aversion to CBC programming should prevent anyone from seeing Sturla Gunnarson�s dramatized recreation of the 1985 bombing of an Air India jumbo jet en route from Canada to England, it would be a shame. This is exactly the sort of project the CBC would be commissioning -- not occasionally but almost monthly -- in a better world.

Gunnarson is the director who made the far better movie version of Beowulf � the one that cost a fraction of Robert Zemeckis� recent heavily hyped travesty, with its embarrassing videogame digital sheen. His retelling of the Air India 182 story borrows a few formal touches from Paul Greengrass� United 93, but paces itself more gravely, as if in response to the passage of time in which the tragedy has resonated.

Time flashes back and forth in the first half of the film as the events leading up to the bombing come into focus, and then seems to blow apart in slow motion in the aftermath of the plane's disappearance over the North Atlantic. We�re allowed to understand how hard it would have been to prevent the bombing with what information the RCMP had up until that point � in situations like this, hindsight is inevitably all too clear � while the underfunding and bureaucratic blunders of the country�s intelligence services make their appearance on cue; a muddleheaded CSIS policy of erasing wiretaps after having them transcribed would lead to two key suspects in the plot by Sikh extremists being acquitted.

Even as it was happening, the events surrounding Air India 182 often seemed confusing. There was an unfortunate tendency to treat it as an internal dispute within the Indian and Sikh communities, typifed by then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney�s puzzling apology to the Indian government, but not the families of Canadians who actually died in the bombing. Gunnarson somehow manages to make it all clear, without swamping the film in details and lessening the still-raw emotional trauma that marks those left behind.

Air India 182 re-airs next Sunday at 10pm on CBC Newsworld and it deserves a few more airings, as well as a decent life on DVD, if only to give the network a prominent model for how to fulfill its mandate.

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Excel

   
Artist: Excel

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Rock
   

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 The Joke's on You

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 17

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Not the computing device programme, merely a skatecore/crossover band from Venice, CA (where else?), Excel were musical baby brothers to hometown heroes Suicidal Tendencies, and recorded a trio of albums which became quite popular with informed fans of the genre, if non the music-buying masses. Formed in 1985 by vocalizer Dan Clemente, guitarist Adam Siegel, bassist Shaun Ross, and drummer Greg Saenz, Excel debuted in 1987 with the well-meant only excessively ST-dependent Split Image. They afterwards learned a few original tricks of their own for 1989's slightly improved The Joke's on You, only split up for a few years before recording 1995's funk-thrash wander song Quest Refuge -- by which clock time they'd started sounding more care San Francisco's Mordred.

Django Mango

   
Artist: Django Mango

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 India Meets The Gypsies (The Return To The Roots)

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Tracks: 10

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Culcha Candela

   
Artist: Culcha Candela

   Genre(s): 
Reggae
   

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Discography:


   
 Culcha Candela

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 14

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Sporting a multicultural membership, a sociopolitical docket, and a musical amalgamate of hip-hop, reggae, and Latin rhythms, Germany's Culcha Candela are a tough mathematical group to cubbyhole. Formed in Berlin in 2003, the group's membership reflects diversity, with singers Larsito, Don Cali, and Lafrotino hailing from Columbia; isaac Merrit Singer Johnny Strand from Uganda; isaac Merrit Singer Itchyban from Poland; isaac Merrit Singer Mr. Reedoo from Germany; and DJ Chino convict Estilo from Korea. Culcha Candela's music reflects all of this, with lyrics song dynasty in German, English, and Spanish spun over Jamaican and Latin rhythms, all done with a distinct hip-hop sensibility. The chemical group released its debut record album, Union Verdadera, in 2004, followed by NEXT Generation a yr subsequently in 2005.